Sweden’s national television has released what it claims is previously unpublished film footage of US Republican Party Presidential Candidate John McCain leaving North Vietnam following his release from a prisoner of war camp.
The footage has reportedly been in SVT archives for the last 35 years, but has now been released on DVD to accompany a book about the Vietnam War by the Swedish author Erik Eriksson. The footage shows McCain and other former POWs leaving a bus and standing on the tarmac at Hanoi’s airport.
McCain’s name is heard being called out, after which a slightly limping McCain is greeted by a high ranking U.S. military officer on his way to an airplane after more than five years of captivity as a prisoner of war.
